17-24 May 2016
BEING THERE
works by
DAVID WEEKES
WOJCIECH NOWIKOWSKI
17-24 May 2016
Private views: 17 May, 6-9pm & 21 May, 3-6pm
STUDIO SIENKO GALLERY
57A Lant Street
LONDON SE1 1QN
Mon-Fri 11-6pm
Sat-Sun 12-6pm
‘BEING THERE’
works by
David Weekes & Wojciech Nowikowski
STUDIO SIENKO GALLERY
BEING THERE
works by
WOJCIECH NOWIKOWSKI
DAVID WEEKES
17-24 May 2016
Private views: 17 May, 6-9pm & 21 May, 3-6pm
STUDIO SIENKO GALLERY
57A Lant Street
LONDON SE1 1QN
Mon-Fri 11-6pm
PRESS RELEASE
‘BEING THERE’
works by
David Weekes &,
Wojciech Nowikowski
STUDIO SIENKO GALLERY
17-24 May 2016
Although separated by the wall between their studios and crucially by different working
methods, David Weekes and Wojciech Nowikowski have been exchanging thoughts and
criticisms of their work for many years.
Their response to outside reality is markedly different. While Weekes chooses to face the
complexity of visual stimuli, Nowikowski, overwhelmed perhaps by all that complexity,
looks for ‘replacement’.
Weekes works from a series of sketchbook studies and the final work, with an unmistak-
ably identifiable subject and analytical approach, belongs to the realist tradition.
Nowikowski ‘constructs’ his works from fragments of memories and sensations, and his
synthetic approach results in evocations of imaginary landscapes and scenes.
Weekes believes in what he sees and marvels at the inexhaustible richness of the ob-
servable: he paints the light.
Nowikowski distrusts what is present and direct and retreats to the studio: he paints the
shadows.
By confronting these two different artists, this show enhances their shared desire to har-
ness materials and techniques for the purpose of registering the experience of seeing.
For this exhibition the artists selected small works on canvas and paper in a variety of me-
dia: charcoal, dry pigment, ink, acrylic and oil paint as well as prints.
More information about the artists and contacts at :
www.wojciechnowikowski.com
Wojciech Nowikowski David Weekes
(above) (above)
‘Hudson’ 2015 ‘River Adige, Verona’ 2015
acrylic on paper, acrylic, ink, graphite on paper
10 x 15 cm 29 x 41 cm
‘To the Lake’ 2016 ‘Self Portrait in the Studio’
acrylic on canvas, 2015
51 x 41 cm oil on board
40 x 30 cm